DevOps Engineer

Location: Atlanta GA 30309
Employment Type: Contract

We are looking for a passionate DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Jenkins CI/CD and Kubernetes orchestration. In this role you will be responsible for building and maintaining automated pipelines managing containerized applications and improving deployment efficiency across development and production environments.

• Design build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.

• Manage deploy and monitor containerized applications on Kubernetes (K8s).

• Create and manage Helm charts Kubernetes manifests namespaces and clusters.

• Work closely with development QA and infrastructure teams to enable smooth releases.

• Automate repetitive operational tasks using Shell / Python scripting.

• Monitor system performance troubleshoot failures and implement reliability improvements.

• Manage Docker images registries and artifact repositories.

• Implement security best practices across CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes environments.

• Configure and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP) supporting DevOps processes.

• Maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform / Ansible.

• Ensure high availability scalability and resilience of deployed applications.

• 12 15 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or related role.

• Strong practical knowledge of Jenkins CI/CD and pipeline development (Freestyle Declarative Groovy scripting).

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration & deployment.

• Solid understanding of Docker and container lifecycle management.

• Experience working with Linux environments.

• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Shell Bash Python).

• Experience with monitoring & logging tools (Prometheus Grafana ELK Splunk).

• Understanding of networking concepts such as load balancing DNS firewalls and ingress.

• Experience with service mesh (Istio/Linkerd).

• Knowledge of GitOps tools (ArgoCD / Flux).

• Hands-on experience with cloud-native solutions.

• Certification such as CKA CKAD AWS/Azure DevOps Engineer.

• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

• Problem-solving mindset and ability to work independently.

• Proactive approach to automation optimization and innovation.

• Ability to work in fast-paced and Agile environments.